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Housing

Applications Received to Finance Purchases/Refinance Mortgage Loan with Bank Loans

Data from Apr 2008 to Mar 2023

Last updated: 04 Dec 2024, 15:53 SGT

HDB (Housing & Development Board)

Applications received from flat buyers and existing flat owners to finance purchases or refinance existing mortgage loans with bank loans

Data explorer

ApplicationsReceivedtoFinancePurchasesRefinanceMortgageLoanwithBankLoans.csv (60 rows, 1.9 KB)

Financial Year
Text
Application Type
Text
No Of Applications
Text
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
resale flat buyers26.7%
existing flat owners (refinance)26.7%
new flat buyers25.0%
DBSS flat buyers20.0%
(Null)0.0%
2008new flat buyers936
2008resale flat buyers14913
2008existing flat owners (refinance)42
2009new flat buyers948
2009resale flat buyers22345
2009existing flat owners (refinance)101
2010new flat buyers868
2010resale flat buyers17990
2010existing flat owners (refinance)329
2011new flat buyers2402

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
Financial Yearfinancial_yearText--
Application Typeapplication_typeText--
No Of Applicationsno_of_applicationsText--
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_fbb057402a1d4a953a9b46babbdbf1fc"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Housing & Development Board. (2016). Applications Received to Finance Purchases/Refinance Mortgage Loan with Bank Loans (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 20, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_fbb057402a1d4a953a9b46babbdbf1fc/view

About this dataset

Contact

Jasmine_JM_TAN@hdb.gov.sglim_hui_ying@hdb.gov.sgQUEK_Hong_Kuen@hdb.gov.sg

Created on

14 Jun 2016

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

HDB (Housing & Development Board)